That’s the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America to you: (For the record, I’m glad Jim Kelly told me this summer to wait, and I’m glad Mary Robinette Kowal told me last week to go for it.) But speaking…
I Survived My First Surrey International Writers’ Conference #SiWC14
And the proof, as usual, is on Twitter: twitter.com/search?q=%40curtiscchen%20%23siwc14&src=typd Highlights included: finally meeting Stephanie and David in person, after many online writing Hangouts; seeing my VPXII classmate Katrina again and getting an autographed copy of her book; learning about book…
SnoutCast #210: Laura E. Hall and Mink Ette
This month, we talk to Laura E. Hall and Mink Ette, two of the six creators behind Spark of Resistance, Portland’s first live, interactive room escape game! (No spoilers herein. You can see some mildly revealing photos of the room…
I Am Not Canadian
I recently came across this post on Weibo, China’s Twitter-like “microblogging” service: http://weibo.com/1654694194/BnIEU7RQ6 What do you mean, you don’t read Chinese? Fine. Here’s Google’s auto-translation: To be fair, I can see how someone in China might be confused, since I…
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I Will Not Get Paid This Much for Any of My Novels
But it’s nice to see that publishers still believe in science fiction. Last month, this bit of news showed up in the Publishers Lunch daily newsletter: Try not to think about the fact that Weir originally self-published his first novel,…
I Support #SportsNight2014
Something wonderful happened on Twitter last Friday night. That something was #SportsNight2014. If you follow my writer persona, you may have noticed me retweeting some of my favorites: Natalie gets really into Call of Duty #SportsNight2014 — Alice has a…
I’M OLD
AND THAT’S OKAY. ISN’T THAT RIGHT, THE DOUBLECLICKS? RIGHT. http://youtu.be/zCF_js2y0Ec I don’t have any big plans for my birthday this year—mostly because, honestly, it’ll be hard to top last year’s incredible awesomeness—but it’s been a really good year so far……
I Kinda Wish I Had Seen This Sooner
TL;DR: Don’t buy Western Digital or Seagate hard drives.“Hard Drive Reliability Update – Sep 2014” from the Backblaze blog Setting up new external HDD, hope this one lasts more than 2 years, should probably just shell out for RAID/NAS next,…
I am once again busy
So, no blog post; please enjoy this animated GIF of Peter Dinklage (as Tyrion Lannister) dancing back and forth.
SnoutCast #209: Yuan Niu
This month, we talk to Yuan Niu, who’s been running DASH in the Bay Area for several years and Puzzled Pint there since July! [ Download mp3 ] Show length: 39:52File size: 36.4MB Follow @hungrynerd on Twitter for more! What…